Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

Born

29 June 1784 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

Died

24 August 1871 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada

Parents & Family of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

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Born: 29 June 1784 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

Parents of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

Father

Augustin-Claire HOUDE

Mother

Geneviève-Thérèse MARTEL dite LAMONTAGNE

Grandparents of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

Paternal grandparents

Claude HOUDE Marie-Marguerite TROTTIER

Maternal grandparents

Michel-Gabriel MARTEL Geneviève-Catherine SENNEVILLE dite LEFEBVRE

Spouse(s)/Partner(s) and Child(ren):

Pierre married Marie-Anne LEMIRE 18 June 1810 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . The couple had (at least) 2 children.
Marie-Anne LEMIRE was born 26 July 1791 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada . Marie-Anne was the child of Antoine LEMIRE and Marie-Josephe PROULX.

Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR died 24 August 1871 in Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada .

m. Lemire Marie-Anne

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WORK & OCCUPATION

Occupation

Recorded occupation: Cultivateur

The farmer, cultivateur, or cultivator, was a person who cultivated and exploited the land in order to get a crop.

He may have been the proprietor of his own parcel(s) of land. He could, depending on the land size, have employed other agricultural workers. If he didn't own the land, he was called a tenant farmer.
Source: tfcq.ca

farmer

Source: Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, Massachusetts

Life as a Cultivateur in 18th Century New France: Tilling the Soil of History

Spouses, Marriages & Children of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR

Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR married

Marie-Anne LEMIRE
Marriage date: 18 June 1810
Marriage place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Marie-Anne LEMIRE was the child of Antoine LEMIRE and Marie-Josephe PROULX

Sacred Unions: A Look into 19th-Century Catholic Weddings in Quebec

Children of Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR and Marie-Anne LEMIRE

Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR

Born: 2 November 1810, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Lower Canada
Died: ,

Married: Vital PINARD 22 October 1844 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East

Julie HOUDE

Born: abt. 1825, , Québec Province, Canada
Died: ,

Married: Joseph GENEREUX 5 October 1852 Place: Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East

RESEARCH CONTEXT

Québec Genealogy Notes

Helpful background for understanding names and places that may appear in Pierre's Québec records.

Québec Place Names Through History

Québec has been described by several names during different periods of its history. Knowing the period name can make older records easier to recognize.

Early 1600s–1760: Canada, New France
1760–1763: Canada
1763–1791: Province of Québec
1791–1867: Lower Canada
1867–present: Québec, Canada

Thanks to Micheline Gadbois MacDonald for providing this information.

What is a "dit/dite" Name?

When the first settlers came to Québec from France, it was a custom to add a "dit" nickname to the surname. The English translation of "dit" is "said." Colonists of Nouvelle France used dit names as distinguishers. A settler might use one to differentiate a branch of the family from siblings, sometimes choosing a name connected with the place to which the family had relocated.

A dit name could also result from a casual adoption or from honoring the family that had raised someone. In other cases it identified the town or village in France from which the person originated. The custom ended around 1900, when people increasingly used only one name, either the dit nickname or the original surname.

Source: American-French Genealogical Society, Woonsocket, Rhode Island (www.afgs.org/ditnames/index1.html)

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Birth — 1784
29 June 1784
Baie-du-Fèbvre, Province of Québec, Canada

1791 - The Constitutional Act divides Québec into Upper and Lower Canada

1793 - The cotton gin is invented (Eli Whitney, United States)

1800 - Electric storage battery is invented (Alessandro Volta, Italy)

1810 Marriage / Partner
Pierre HOUDE dit LECLAIR and Marie-Anne LEMIRE 18 June 1810 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

He was 25 years old.

1810 Birth of Child
Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR was born 2 November 1810, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Québec, Canada (Saint-Antoine-de-la-Baie-du-Febvre)

Pierre was 26 years old.

1817 - The bicycle is invented (Baron Karl de Drais de Sauerbrun, Germany)

1818 - Canada's border is defined as the 49th Parallel from Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains.

1820 - January 29 - George IV becomes King of England

1824 - Portland cement is invented (Joseph Aspdin, England)

1825 - The locomotive is invented (George Stephenson, England)

1826 - The gas stove is invented (James Sharp, England)

1827 - Matches are invented (John Walker, England)

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1844 Marriage of Child
Adelaide HOUDE dite LECLAIR married 22 October 1844, Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East to Vital PINARD

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1852 Marriage of Child
Julie HOUDE married 5 October 1852 , Baie-du-Fèbvre, Canada East to Joseph GENEREUX

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.